Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics

by Mark R. Glanville; Luke Glanville

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2021

Overview

The global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year. At the same time, Western Christians' sympathy toward refugees is increasingly overshadowed by concerns about personal and national security, economics, and culture. We urgently need a perspective that understands both Scripture and current political realities and that can be applied at the levels of the church, the nation, and the globe.

In Refuge Reimagined, Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship. God's people, they argue, are consistently called to extend kinship—a mutual responsibility and solidarity—to those who are marginalized and without a home. Drawing on their respective expertise in Old Testament studies and international relations, the two brothers engage a range of disciplines to demonstrate how this ethic is consistently conveyed throughout the Bible and can be practically embodied today.

Glanville and Glanville apply the kinship ethic to issues such as the current mission of the church, national identity and sovereignty, and possibilities for a cooperative global response to the refugee crisis. Challenging the fear-based ethic that often motivates Christian approaches, they envision a more generous, creative, and hopeful way forward. Refuge Reimagined will equip students, activists, and anyone interested in refugee issues to understand the biblical model for communities and how it can transform our world.

Key Features

• Offers a new approach to compassion for displaced people
• Applies the kinship ethic to issues such as the current mission of the church, national identity and sovereignty
• Explores the biblical model for communities and how it can transform our world

Contents

Part I: The Bible

• Kinship with the Stranger
• Seeking Refuge under Yahweh's Wings
• Jesus’ Kinship

Part II: The Church

• Creative Kinship in the Church

Part III: The Nation

• Neighbor-Loving Nations
• Stranger-Loving Sovereigns
• Relinquishing Fear, Nurturing Compassion, Institutionalizing Love

Part IV: The World

• Hope for Global Kinship
• Global Kinship with Refugees
• Kinship-Creativity
• Conclusion

Product Details

• Title: Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics
• Authors: Mark R. Glanville, Luke Glanville
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 258
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration › Religious aspects--Christianity; Church work with immigrants; Church work with refugees; Ethnicity › Religious aspects--Christianity; Kinship › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9780830853823, 9780830853816, 0830853820, 0830853812
• Resource ID: LLS:REFGREIMGND
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:39:50Z

About the Authors

Mark R. Glanville (PhD, Bristol University) is associate professor of pastoral theology at Regent College, Vancouver, and an Old Testament scholar. He is the author of Adopting the Stranger as Kindred in Deuteronomy and Reading Exodus and has written articles for a variety of publications including the Journal of Biblical Literature, Refuge Journal, Journal of Missional Practice, Christian Educators Journal, Evangelicals for Social Action, Faith Today, The Light Magazine, and The Presbyterian Pulse.

Glanville previously ministered in a missional urban community, Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, Vancouver, and was a professor of congregational theology at the Missional Training Center in Phoenix. He is a trained jazz pianist and lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his wife, Erin, and their two children.

Luke Glanville (PhD, University of Queensland) is associate professor in the department of international relations at Australian National University. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History, which won the Australian Political Science Association Crisp Prize in 2016 and the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award in 2014.